I certainly don't want to disparage these fine shots...though I really do not like the cold and most especially anything involving the white stuff unless it is sand on a southern beach, but I seem to see this "oddity" in so many snow shots and wonder as to its "realness" or if it is just a chromatic abberation which not everyone "fixes?"

Why is there blue snow? I did a simple edit and made it white without, as to my tastes, losing any of the quality which attracted my eye in the first place. So, I guess not living in that area of the world where one has to dig themselves a path to the mailbox, does this blueness have something to do with the blue sky reflecting off what is essentially water, or is it camera incorrectness? I am honesty curious because I cannot look at blue snow scene and not be turned off by the blue.

This, of course also beings up a case for the differences in montior calibration.

Why is there blue snow? I did a simple edit and made it white without, as to my tastes, losing any of the quality which attracted my eye in the first place.

Hi Chris,This has exercised me greatly over the last week. Your edit still has blue shadows (to my eye).I spent a long time futzing with colour in my "States of snow" post. Note the variation within #1 in that series.Snow is blue (just checked out the window), and cameras can increase it.

Apparently the painting world went through this debate a century or so ago.Enjoy snow-free Florida! It's a mild -20 °C here today.

Okay, I will give in to blue snow from now on. I wonder why our sand doesn't do the same thing and our sand here is as white as your snow there? -20 anyhting F or C doesn't sound remotely like you'd find me there...Brrrrrrr.

Thanks. I knew about the ice condition and blue but did not realize it carried over to snow as well...good, I've always made it a point to learn something new every day and this makes the rest of the day easier.

Thanks for the comments. Yes the light was very purple and pink so the shadows pretty much went there as well. I actually had to desaturate a little bit because the colours were so vivid that the image looked like I have boosted the saturation.

There is another shot of the barn, which one of the two do you guys prefer ?